Frame for traveling-bags



(No Model.)

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FRAME FOR TRAVELING BAGS.

No. 410,478. Patented Sept. 3, 1889.

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ATTORNEY,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OTTO ZIMMER, OF JERSEY CITY, NElV JERSEY.

FRAME FOR TRAVELING-BAGS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 410,478, dated September 3, 1889.

Application filed May 29, 1889- Serial No. 312,549. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OTTO ZIMMER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Jersey City, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Frames for Traveling-Bags; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The invention has reference to an improved frame for traveling-bags; and the invention consists of a traveling-bag having single flat jaws, the outer part of one jaw having only a slight upward bend to overlap the outer part of the other jaw, said jaws being hinged, by means of transverse hinge-rods, to areshaped end braces applied to the end walls of the bag. The extensions of the side walls are sewed around the jaws of the frame.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a perspective view of the traveling-bag with my improved frame. Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the same, partly in section. Fig. 3 is a top view of the frame, and Fig. 4 is a section of the jaws of the frame.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

In the drawings, A represents the body of the traveling-bag, made of leather or other suitable material, and B the frame of the same. The frame consists of two single fiat main portions or jaws B 13 which are hinged, by means of two transverse hinge-rods a, to the end braces b. The main portions or jaws B B are made entirely flat, the outer part of the jaw B having onlya slight upward bend, so as to overlap the outer part of the jaw 13*. The extensions of the side walls are passed around the jaws and sewed around the same by machine, as shown in Fig. 4. This can not be done with the old frames now in use,

which have on their overlapping parts a reversed-U-shaped cross-section, to which the extensions of the side walls of the bag are riveted by means of auxiliary inner frames. The transverse hinge -rods pass alongside through the bag and impart thereby to the same a high degree of rigidity.

The end walls of the bag are riveted or sewed to the braces b, and the locking device and handle are attached to the jaws in the usual manner.

By means of the single fiat jaws of my traveling-bag frame labor and material are saved, as the extensions of the side walls of the bag are sewed to the jaws by machinery and the riveting of the same to the jaws and the appliance of the auxiliary inner frames are dispensed with.

My frame imparts to the traveling-bag an improved appearance by avoiding the reversed-U-shaped elevation of the old frame.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure byLetters Patent 1. A frame for traveling-bags having single jawsfthe whole of one jaw being entirely fiat while the side parts of the other jaw are also flat, and the outer part of the latter having only a slight upward bend for the purpose of overlapping the outer part of the first jaw, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, with the body of a traveling-bag, of single jaws, one of which is entirely flat, the second jaw having its side parts also entirely flat and the outer part with only a slight upward bend to overlap the outer part of the first jaw, the jaws being hinged to the end braces of the frame by means of transverse hinge-rods, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

OTTO ZIMMER.

Witnesses:

ALFRED GINsBERY, WASHINGTON IRVING SEWARDS. 

